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What is Legend?

Section titled “What is Legend?”

Legend is a lightweight, self-hosted knowledge context engine that helps teams discover, understand, and connect their internal systems and knowledge. Think of it as the navigational key for your organization’s ecosystem, providing context and connections that turn scattered resources into a coherent, navigable landscape.

Legend bridges the gap between simple dashboards and heavy enterprise portals by offering:

  • Contextual relationships that show how services, teams, and people connect
  • Intelligent discovery through relationship-aware search
  • Clear ownership and responsibility mapping
  • Unified access to documentation and deep links
  • Optional complexity that scales with your organizational needs

Getting Started

Learn how to set up and configure Legend. Start here →

User Guide

Features, functions, and how-tos for running a successful Legend instance. Learn more →

Admin Guide

Administration, configuration, and operations. View guide →

Who is Legend For?

Section titled “Who is Legend For?”

Legend serves three primary audiences:

Administrators deploy Legend in minutes with a single Docker container. The flat-file backend makes version control and backup straightforward. Tier-based licensing grows with your needs, and no Kubernetes or enterprise infrastructure is required.

Team leads and owners gain clarity on who owns what. Impact analysis becomes possible through dependency tracking. New team members can quickly understand the landscape of services, responsibilities, and expertise.

Every team member discovers services, documentation, and expertise through intelligent search. Instead of asking “who owns this?” or “where is the runbook?”, you navigate directly through connected relationships.

Quick Start

Section titled “Quick Start”

You need a computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) capable of running Docker with at least 512Mb of disk space, 512Mb of memory, and a single processor core available. For Linux nodes we provide a streamlined install script to get you up and running quickly.

Terminal window
sudo apt install curl
curl -fsSL https://mylegend.io/install-legend.sh | bash
  1. Automatically checks & downloads dependencies
  2. Installs docker and docker compose (as needed), adds your user to the docker group
  3. Pulls the image to the location you provide
  4. Prompts for the information required by the .env
  5. Starts up your instance and provides you with the endpoint to start onboarding